Soccer Uniforms

So I guess you have more time to sew baby blankets than you had thought! And I'm sure you had a cute uniform figured out! Barbara in FL .>

Ummm ... it's football, and they wear a strip not a uniform. At least, they do in the land where the game was first invented. Hehehehe!

(PS if you want a scary thought, imagine my substantially-built 12yo daughter learning to play rugby).

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I'm just dreading my son learning. He's not too keen on football, but the school he will most likely go to plays hockey and rugby as well! The thought of that lad bearing down on one armed to the teeth with a large stick - and a mixture of Highlander, Border Reaver, Viking and Norman ancestry... I'm digging a bunker! ;)

Given the size he is now, if he keeps growing at the current rate, he'll be the size of Jonah Lomu by the time he's 15!

PS, take heart, there are lots of other things you can do for the team. You could make headbands for the girls, or water bottle covers, or embroider bags to hold their shoes, or... One year my youngest dd's basketball team has embroidered wristbands with their team "logo" on them. They were the Shooting Stars, and one mom with an embroidery machine added a shooting star in gold thread to each of the white terry wristbands. They were really cute, too. We have a machine that "writes", and my girls made hair ribbons with their friends' names on them, and sometimes with the team name. Those were always a big hit.

Karen Maslowski > My DGD is on a soccer team for the first time......she is 7 and it is

I bet it was going to be a cute uniform! Make it anyways, one just for her, to get pictures taken with her soccer ball! (I am big one for saying "make it anyways" "buy them all" and "you can wear satin to a play date at the park")

Michelle Giordano

First invented? Really???

Well, he can be a goalie then, it's not necessary for them to bear down on anyone! ;-)

Thanks everyone for the moral support!!

Maybe I will think of a team thing to do..... hmmmmmmmmmmmm.........the wheels are grinding again!!

It was the last time *I* played hockey! Goto flattened by a 15 stone goalie in full kit - under which was the most huge and solid female 14 YO it has ever been my misfortune to encounter. Nice lass - just built like a brick netty!

No wonder it's such a long time since I played hockey... ;)

Well, see, I think we're talking about different forms of "hockey". I was thinking about *ice* hockey, in which the goalie is severely restricted as to his/her movements/tackles. ;->

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Ye gods! Thanks for the nightmares, Beverly! LOL

Karen Maslowski > First invented? Really???

Anytime, glad to help. ;->

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Ah well, there you go. We start talking about proper football, and move on to proper hockey ... anyone for a nice game of rounders?

Well, this was land-based hockey, on a school playing field in England - and there was about 3" of snow on the ground and we played with daglo green balls! More slither than a bucket of eels!

Oh, no - I knew where to stand and run, I played for the junior team! :) it's just that there was 3" of snow lying about, and when the goalie tried to block my shot, her feet slid out from under her and she flattened me into the slush! Nice lass, I found out later. This was an inter-school match and we won the league that year, but I don't remember if we one that particular game! We didn't let a little thing like snow stop us playing in those days!

There was a similar game in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, common to many indigenous groups. Nearly every archaeological site has an excavated ball court, a rectangular area with walled sides, and a ring set high on a side wall -- or two rings, one on either side. The ball was to be sent through that ring - but the players could not use their hands.

Berets in the team color?

great best of luck to her wish her a very bright future as a soccer player :)